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General Action Adventure
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Henderson Libraries Books
Action & Adventure
Exotic Locales
| Raymond Benson | The fourth author to continue Ian Fleming’s James Bond series. Several James Bond short stories have been published in Playboy and TV Guide magazines as well. | | Clive Cussler | His popular character, Dirk Pitt , deep sea expert and adventurer, was introduced in 1973 with Pacific Vortex and is still going strong. His 11th novel, Sahara, was made into a motion picture | | Dorothy Dunnett | Renaissance courts of Europe and USSR | | Ian Fleming | Creator of James Bond, British agent 007 for Her Majesty’s Secret Service. Series started in 1953 with Casino Royale. Numerous films made from his novels. Kinsgley Amis continued the James Bond series with only one book to his credit, Colonel Sun under the pseudonym Robert Markham. Stories were continued by John Gardner | | John Gardner | Continued with Ian Fleming’s James Bond series in 1981 with License Renewed and continued until 1996 when Raymond Benson took over | | Stephen Hunter | Series with Earl Swagger, Bob Lee, and Charles | | Hammond Innes | A man, seeking the past, battling the forces of nature in some remote region of the world best describes Hammond Innes’ novels | | Robert Lewis Taylor | Westerns (Pulitzer Prize for Travels of Janie McPheeters) |
Military Adventures
| Stephen Coonts | Writes thrillers involving Adm. Jack Grafton | | Bernard Cornwell | Sharpe series set in the Napoleonic war and the Starbuck chronicles set during the U.S. Civil War | | C.S. Forester | Wrote the famous Horatio Hornblower series made into a television series by A & E. | | Robert Gandt | Focuses on naval aviation and is very accurate due to the fact that he is an ex-Navy fighter pilot. | | W.E.B. Griffin | A very current popular author with 5 series of different branches of the military | | Jack Higgins | Pen name for British novelist Harry Patterson and has written numerous thrillers with his most popular being The Eagle Has Landed | | Alexander Kent | see Douglas Reeman (listed below) | | Alistair MacLean | Guns of Navarrone, classic order author written in the 1970’s | | Richard Marcinko | Soldier of fortune type novels | | Philip McCutchan | Series include Halfhyde, Chatto, Cmeron, Kemp, Ogilvie | | Patrick O’Brian | Series of historical seafaring novels of Captain Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, ship’s surgeon starting during the Napoleonic wars. The first in the series, Master and Commander has been made into a film starring Russell Crowe. | | Douglas Reeman aka Alexander Kent | Douglas Reeman concentrates on sea novels, i.e. the Blackwood Saga. Alexander Kent, on a series with midshipman Richard Bolitho set in the 1770’s-1817. | | Richard Woodman | English author of nautical historical fiction. Has several series, his longest being The Nathaniel Drinkwater series |
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